Concepts

The coordination between plant and microbial diversity, wherein both communities experience large shifts in composition following disturbance or when a perturbation disrupts their coordinated response

Fungal symbionts that form specialized structures (arbuscules, vesicles) within plant root cells and are important for nutrient exchange

A group of fungal endophytes characterized by dark-pigmented, septate hyphae that commonly colonize plant roots and can increase under environmental stress

Predicts that species interactions should disappear at the stressful end of environmental gradients where abiotic conditions constrain species ranges

The extent to which fungal symbionts colonize plant tissues, measured as percentage of tissue colonized

The degree to which parasites show preference or restriction to particular host species rather than being generalist